[Scan-DC] US Park PD?

edtobias at comcast.net edtobias at comcast.net
Mon Mar 1 08:23:08 EST 2010 

Like the BW Parkway and the GW Parkway, the Clara Barton Parkway is patrolled by US Park Police. I can attest to this because I was stopped by a USPP unit running radar on the Clara Barton a few years ago. (No, I did not get a ticket). By the way, long ago, before it was named the Clara Barton Parkway, that road used to be known as "the Maryland side of the GW Parkway". 

All of those units work off the same dispatch frequency of 166.925. Here are all of the USPP frequencies, from the RadioReference listing: 

Park Police 


Frequency Type Tone Alpha Tag Description Mode Tag 
	166.72500 	RM 	127.3 PL 	Park PD 1/6 	Tactical/Special Events 	FM 	Federal 
	166.92500 	RM 	127.3 PL 	Park PD 2/7 	Dispatch/Operations 	FM 	Federal 
	167.07500 	RM 	127.3 PL 	Park PD 3/8 	Tactical/Administration 	FM 	Federal 
	166.85000 	M 	127.3 PL 	Park PD 4 	Tactical/Special Operations 	FM 	Federal 
Also from RadioReference, here are the unit numbers. Either the 200 or the 300 units patrol the Clara Barton: 


    • 100s - Central (Downtown) 
    • 200s - George Washington Parkway 
    • 300s - West (Rock Creek Park) 
    • 400s - Baltimore-Washington Parkway 
    • 500s - East (Anacostia, etc.) 
    • 700s - Special Operations 

Ed 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "t11spanner" <t11spanner at gmail.com> 
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2010 6:51:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] US Park PD? 

C&O is part of the National Capital Region of National Parks. 

They do not dispatch the Park Police, nor do they do the GW or BW parkway. 
Given the close proximity of those parks to the Park Police, they patrol it 
and dispatch it. 

C&O Canal, HQ'd in Hagerstown is the central dispatch center for the 
following National Parks in the Capital Region: 

C&O Canal, 
Antietam Battlefield, 
Monocacy Battlefield, 
Harpers Ferry, 
Catoctin Mountain Park, 
Manassas Battlefield, 
Prince William Forest, 
Fort McHenry 
Hampton Historical Site. 

Carl 



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From: "David L. Wilson" <dwilson314 at verizon.net> 
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:10 PM 
To: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] US Park PD? 

> C&O Canal is not part of National Capital Parks nor GW Parkway (though 
> they 
> probably also have those frequencies). C&O Canal uses a 3 repeater linked 
> system that has repeaters at Great Falls, Lambs Knoll, and Cacapon 
> Mountain. 
> 
> http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=2695 
> 169.6875 repeater would have been the one to watch. 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com> 
> To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> 
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:49 PM 
> Subject: [Scan-DC] US Park PD? 
> 
> 
> 
> Last night (Saturday), I think around 2300, Montgomery County dispatched 
> fire / rescue units to (I think) lock 5 at the C&O canal for a vehicle in 
> the canal... it turned out to be a pickup truck that had been involved in 
> robbery or burglary or something like that, and subsequent police chase, 
> in 
> Ffx county. Vehicle turned out to be unoccupied by the time they got there 
> (surprise!) and was upright... apparently the water was not that deep. 
> 
> I was falling asleep and gathered most of this, but didn't listen too much 
> after I heard all that (basically the initial report). It was down in the 
> Canal Road / Clara Barton Parkway / Cabin John Parkway area. 
> 
> I _think_ I turned on the 800-meg scanner and I _think_ I put it on the 
> MCP 
> Bethesda talkgroup (I didn't have the US Park channels programmed into the 
> radio but have just remedied that), but was wondering at the time who has 
> jurisdiction there, MCP or US Park Police, or both... does anyone know? 
> 
> I looked on RadioReference and only see four frequencies for US Park... 
> but 
> then another four for National Park Service... the NPS channels are 
> tagged: 
> 
> National Capital Parks - Central (US Park Police Ch. 5); 
> National Capital Parks - East; 
> George Washington Parkway; and 
> National Capital Parks - Central 
> 
> Does anyone have a little more detailed insight about how these 
> frequencies 
> are used, and how the Park Police operate? There doesn't seem to be any 
> indication of different frequencies for parks / facilities / operations in 
> MD, DC, or VA... 
> 
> Tomorrow I'll check Alan's Capitol Hill Monitors site, I think at least 
> some 
> of this has been addressed there... 
> 
> Any info would be of interest! Thanks! 
> 
> 
> Doug 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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